cutback
Spending decrease measure
A cutback is a reduction, especially in spending, production, or personnel: The company announced cutbacks in its workforce.
Budget cutbacks trim expenses; cutbacks in oil production reduce output.
In surfing, a cutback is a sharp turn back toward the breaking part of a wave.
To cut back is to reduce or prune.
Making something smaller
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- belt-tighteningReducing expenditures deliberately
- trimmingCutting away excess
retrenchment · curtailment · streamlining · consolidation · savings · deficit reduction · fiscal restraint · slash
Mass job eliminations
- redundanciesUnneeded duplications or repetitions
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- workforce reductionCutting employee headcount
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
attrition · rightsizing · staff reduction · hiring freeze · severance · furloughs · pink slip · early retirement
Cutting away excess
- shapingGiving something its form
- thinningReducing density or number
- loppingCutting away branches
- deadheadingRemoving wilted flowers
snipping · clipping · shearing · rejuvenation · hedging · topping · pinching · branch removal
reduction
Making something smaller
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- belt-tighteningReducing expenditures deliberately
trimming · retrenchment · curtailment · streamlining · consolidation · savings · deficit reduction · fiscal restraint · slash · squeeze
layoffs
Mass job eliminations
- redundanciesUnneeded duplications or repetitions
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- workforce reductionCutting employee headcount
restructuring · attrition · rightsizing · staff reduction · hiring freeze · severance · furloughs · pink slip · early retirement · headcount reduction
trimming
Cutting away excess
deadheading · snipping · clipping · shearing · rejuvenation · hedging · topping · pinching · branch removal
turn
Rotational movement
re-entry · lip · rail · spray · pocket · hook · slash · pivot · backside · frontside
- cutbacksdecrease, layoff, reduction, reductions, curtailing
- Surfingsurfboards, surfboard, longboards, shortboards, longboard
- feintsfeint, fake, juke, deke, head fake
- declinesdrop, decline, downtrend, downturn, downfall
- decreasesreduction, decline, drop, fall, decrease
- frugalityfrugality, thrift, frugal, penny-pinching, economize